[Brown wax home recording of messages to George Dunlop and his fiance in America from family in Ireland, made December 26, 1900].
Cylinder12962
- Performer:
- Dunlop, William
- Place of Publication:
- [Ireland],
- Issued Date:
- 1900
- Genres:
- Personal recordings
- Notes:
Brown wax cylinder.
The David Giovannoni Collection of home cylinder recordings (Set Number: 176-02).
William (?) Dunlop.
- Description:
Man speaks: "Message from William (?) Dunlop to his brother George, record made December twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred. Dear George: A good many years have passed since I saw you.... it is reported in Ireland that you are about to get married. I wish you all sorts of happiness and prosperity. I would like to have played the Wedding March for the occasion, but I have done the next best thing sending a record of it on the graphophone.... Good-bye, your loving brother, William (?)." Second portion of recording is addressed from the same speaker to George's fiance, whom he had apparently met in Ireland years before. Finally, a woman speaks a message, noting the phonograph as a "wonderful machine," stating: "America no doubt is a great country, but no place in the wide world will ever be so beautiful to me as dear old Erin, the land of my birth"; and concluding with the song "Come Back to Erin."
- Physical Description:
- 1 cylinder (ca. 2 min.) : 134.2 rpm ; 2 1/4 x 4 in.
- Format:
- Audio musical
- Collection(s):
- Cylinder Audio Archive
- Library Location:
- Department of Special Research Collections
- Other Versions:
- http://www.library.ucsb.edu/OBJID/Cylinder12962
- ARK:
- ark:/48907/f33j3cd9
- Catalog System Number:
- 990041106650203776
- Copyright Holder:
- University of California (System). Regents
- Restrictions:
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